Interviews and Profiles

My Visit to Easter Island Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was the dream trip of a lifetime. I have wanted to visit Easter Island since I was seven-years old and saw my first...

Behind the Scenes with Search And Rescue: A nose is a nose is a nose. But with dogs, its most important sense is smell. "A dog's nose is as important as our eyes are to us," says Dr. Brian...

The Gear Junkie The Gear Junkie: Interview with Stephen Regenold"I like to think that I walk the walk and talk the talk," says Minneapolis-based journalist Stephen...

Fighting Malaria with Bednets To most of us, economists seem like ivory-tower academics who spend their waking hours analyzing national income and employment figures. Yet a...

Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail Let's just say that you're one of the 300 really committed, perhaps even foolhardy, outdoor types who decide each year to attempt to hike the entire...

The Well-Centered Centerfold Looking good in front of a camera is one thing; feeling bad is another. With her body temperature redlining at 104° Fahrenheit, a sprained ankle...

Wild at Heart His television career has aptly followed a serpentine route. As series producer for "Reptile Wild" for the National Geographic Channel, filmmaker,...

Mountains to Sea For long-distance hikers whose magnetic direction veer towards the longitudinal, with sunrises at their front each morning, there's a new trail that...

Come Fly with Me Chris Jopp usually has water on the brain. The sea is his friend and companion. He studies its molecular properties in the lab, he teaches its...

Adventurer of the Year and the Toughest Man on the Planet You won't see him playing smash-mouth football in some upstart, testosterone-addled pro league. Nor will you ever watch him swapping spittle and...

Sandstorms, Heat, Blisters, and 150 Miles of Running Running the hilly trails in Marin County didn't seem enough of a sporting challenge for Kory Helean, 28, who once was a competitive gymnast and is now...

Overcoming Cancer is Like Adventure Racing Every adventure racer will inevitably confront that white-knuckle moment of truth when it seems that ones life is precariously held in balance. A...